2 Guns
2013
***
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Fred Ward, Edward James Olmos, Robert John Burke
Bobby and Stig, two small time crooks, loot the safety deposit boxes of a bank in Las Cruces, unaware that the money belongs to some very nasty people. What the two don't know about each other is that they are both undercover agents, Bobby for the DEA and Stig for the navy intelligence. This adaptation of a comic book by Steven Grant is an entertaining but by-the-numbers crime caper. On the plus side, the film has a good cast, nicely drawn characters, and refreshingly comprehensible actions scenes which do no cause headache and nausea. On the minus side, the duo's respective undercover operations and the ensuing crosses and double-crosses make very little sense come the end. Baltasar Kormákur also demonstrates a Tarantinoesquely casual attitude to on-screen violence.
